For all the Trump administration’s talk of saving money and increasing “government efficiency,” the president demanded that huge amounts be appropriated in the Republicans’ recent budget bill to fund his mass-deportation program.
In all, $170 billion was set aside to be spent over the next four years for border and immigration enforcement. This total includes $45 billion to create a sprawling detention system (nearly five times the annual budget for the Bureau of Prisons), $30 billion for ICE operations, $46.6 billion for more border wall construction, and, as if that weren’t enough, a new $10 billion border patrol slush fund.
This level of funding is unprecedented. ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country. And that fact raises a question: What exactly are they going to do with all that money?
Disaster in the making? It’s already a fucking disaster. ICE agents have been granted additional slack above and beyond that already extended to normal cops, who frequently abuse it. This is going to be a fucking American Kristallnacht for Latinos, with more groups set to follow in the wake of these broad constitutional and legal abuses.
it’s true that our current situation is a disaster. it does not diminish the fact that an even bigger disaster is being constructed while we process and attempt to repair this disaster. the old ice agents are bad, evil, and cruel, but they were also all recruited under a different framing of what ICE is supposed to be. the new ones will have absolutely no compunctions, no reservations, and no hesitations.
They were recruited to round up brown people, whom they regard as criminal. That’s true of the new group and was true of ice and cbp agents recruited under previous administrations.
This is going to be a fucking American Kristallnacht for Latinos
And they voted for it.
Trump or not, this country is in deep shit.
Dunno, I’ve seen quite a few Spanish second names on that site people link here in comments.
I’d say it’s going to be a problem for everyone, but not like Kristallnacht. That was, a reminder, SA public action, rather artistic, in line with the Nazi official policy. A show.
Though one can say today’s elites love a good show too, I won’t repeat again that thing about impression economy I’ve read about from Cory Doctorow, I think. I think in line with that some Nazi approaches are possible. That’s what they did with Gaza and Alawites in Syria (no way this was without Israel’s and US and EU approval, just no way).
But - impressions also were a big thing then. Radio just became popular. Olympic games. Automobiles gaining popularity. Airships. Electric lighting. Radiola, pianola, such various automatons using radio and punchcards. Tabulating machines that Nazis used for their population census.
That wasn’t just goons given right to do whatever (they were in Nazi Germany too, but that was small stuff - once a few dozen times someone failed to say “Sieg Heil” they might have been beaten or even killed by a Nazi, and in general Nazis were openly against any kind of due process, - all that “fanatisch, total und radikal” stuff about just vibing through grotesque cruelty and aggression, they were LARPing a tribe, after all, - so acts of random cruelty were normal).
So yes, the time is similar in some way. But when thinking that, let’s also remember that in the 30s many people would think Hitler is the future in Britain and in USA, and in east Asia that old impression still holds.
The steel monsters that broke this one’s back were too not nice, but they did the job and learned some of the lessons.
We are going to see some real Abu Graib type shit in no time at all with the culture of abuse and rushed training. But will any of the immovable 40% who voted for this start to question our embrace of cruelty on a national level? Meh…Look at the baubles!
People should start following bros back to their operating centers then following them home. Create a catalog publicly showing their homes to the public. See how that goes for them SS officers.
When I worked for DoD. This was CBP and Other three letter groups biggest fears. Having their private lives invaded.
When I worked for DoD. This was CBP and Other three letter groups biggest fears. Having their private lives invaded.
Might be unwise to frighten them before you have something to substantiate that fear with, they have weapons and an organization.
Cause frightening them without such basis is how you accelerate fascism. They would want to just enjoy their newly gotten power and - for the top - stolen money, but fear compels them to also press against threats to that.
Like after Bolotnaya protests in Moscow the Russian regime started doing various crap with increased tempo. They might not even have attacked Ukraine without it.
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We know what they want to do with the money because we saw WWI and WWII; create an army directly responsive to the president to facilitate ethnic cleansing and usher in eugenics.
We know what they want to do with the money because we saw WWI and WWII;
We might. Unfortunately, they purposely stopped teaching this shit to zoomers. And Boomers are a lost cause at this point.
It’s almost like Trump wants to make his own personal army that takes orders from him alone.
Someone else posted this in a comment thread. Just want to make it more visible…
I don’t get it, it’s 1000 pictures of the same dude wearing a different hat.
It’s a place to post information. The same hat guy is a generic photo for someone who works for ice but they don’t have a personal picture for, just a name.
My comment was a (poor) attempt at humor. They’re all have the same MAGA Chad douche look.
I wish those of us who stood on “moral righteousness” when voting (in this case not voting) had enough brain power to think about the genocide they helped to trigger back home.
bUt AmErIcAnS nEeD tO gEt UnCoMfOrTaBlE tO hElP gAzAnS.
how is this helping Gazans? things don’t seem any better to me in the levant
If you think that’s bad, imagine the kind of fuckups who would nominate someone that’d campaign so terribly that they couldn’t wipe the floor with him (four times in a row!)
You’re not wrong there, the leaders of the DNC are absolute fucking idiots.
But so are the morally righteous idiots that decided they would help another genocide along while making the genocide they “cared” about worse.
You’re not going to do anything about people not being able to bring themselves to vote for genocide, but you might be able to get the DNC not to tell its own base to fuck off.
This is true.
You cannot change an idiot. But you can change the way you approach idiots.
But I’ll still always, forever, view those idiots as world class idiots. Because they are.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
Looks like it wouldn’t have made a difference either way.
I don’t know how many times I have to point this out.
It doesn’t matter if it made the difference or not.
The people who stayed home or voted 3rd party had no clue whether they were going to make the difference when they did what they did.
They do not deserved to be absolved because it didn’t happen to end up making a difference. They are fools who gambled with our nation’s wellbeing.
They’re fools for not blindly supporting a party that got Trump elected as president twice? What an odd take.
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Don’t be silly. They’re morons. Of course they’ll choose moral superiority regarding a conflict on the other side of the planet before considering the wellbeing of their own nation. Especially when doing so ALSO brings about the worst possible outcome for that foreign conflict they claim to care so much about.
These people can’t tie their shoe laces. Don’t expect them to vote more intelligently (or at all) next time around.
And Europe just agreed to finance it!
Violent global revolution is the only and last hope left for humanity. Arm yourselves.
It’s looking pretty catastrophic, the future. The climate catastrophe, the AGI singularity, and techno-feudal fascism are all imminent. Then, less imminent there’s the altered nuclear threat, antibiotic resistance, societal collapse (due to all of the above, plus unprecedented wealth inequality) to name a few.
Revolution in some form is inevitable, but it’s not guaranteed to be effective in making things better.
We’re about nine historical turning points deep already, but I think the big ones are yet to come and I hate it.Upvoted only because of your username
I wonder what measures they’ll be taking to filter out a would-be saboteur? Would be really hard if the target is to hire 10k people.
Time to buy firearms and start training.
Help everyone you know purchase firearms and help them train.
Form networks.
I’m a former gun salesman, and while I don’t condone pre-emptive violence, I am happy to advise people about the process of purchasing a firearm and selection of a first firearm for hunting, recreation, or self-defense.
The biggest piece of advice for a beginner on a budget is to get something affordable but reliable over something overly fancy and expensive. Put the savings on the firearm into ammo for training. A $400 Canik plus a few thousand rounds of training ammo is more effective at making you a good shooter than a $1500 pistol and a single box of ammo.
I have a $7000 custom precision rifle with a $3500 optic on top. With my years of experience, I can shoot about 1% better than with a $700 rifle/scope combo.
…give it some time, and it’ll be death squad. Just plain killing people, cheaper than sending them away.
hopefully it leads to moles getting in.
I’m wondering how long until the ICE agents who drag me off are all on H1-B visas.
No wonder they went so hard against antifascist early on…
.308 SBR’s to the rescue.
.308 is expensive.
You want to know what else is expensive? Body armor.
The marines ran into this issue a while back. A lot of causalities were caused by groin shots. The chest armor they were wearing was fine for stopping 7.62, but they’d get tagged in the pelvis and bleed out anyway.
Now the marines have crotch armor too, but that’s also expensive and uncomfortable to wear.
Just a little tidbit.
Brown shirt losers
